Marion (Miss.); Women; Civil war; United States; Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864; Jones family; Rice, Augusta H., 1831-1906; Teachers
Black-bordered letter from J. M. Jones in Marion, Mississippi, to Augusta Hopkins Rice in Mobile, Alabama, opening with news about mutual friends and the weather. She writes about women in Marion working to help maimed soldiers and describes one...
Secession; Mississippi; Godey's lady's book and magazine; Hinds County (Miss.)
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her father, Howell Hobbs, relating family and local news and telling her about the local excitement over Mississippi's secession, 1861.
Leroy Butts family farm; multiple views. Farm of 1025 acres located ten miles north of Vicksburg at Redwood, MS. Warren Co. Agricultural agent W. R. Lominick and Home Demonstration agent Mrs. Mamie L. Bright assisted with selection of farm family.
Smith Co. (Miss.) ; Hough, Clifford E.--Family.;farm life--Mississippi.
Clifford E. Hough family farm; multiple views. Farm of 100 acres owned and 75 acres rented about five and a half miles east of Magee, MS, just south of Highway 20. Clifford Hough is MSU Alumnus. Smith Co. Agricultural agent Truitt Bufkin assisted...
Smith Co. (Miss.) ; Overby, W. C.--Family.;farm life--Mississippi.
W. C. Overby family farm; multiple views. Farm of 575 acres located in the Rock Bluff Community three miles north of White Oak and seven miles south of Polkville. Smith Co. Agricultural agent Truitt Bufkin assisted with selection of farm family.
Curtis Riley family farm; multiple views. Farm of 500 acres located about four miles northeast of Duck Hill. Montgomery Co. agent John Killebrew assisted with selection of farm family.
Scott Co. (Miss.) ; Ware, Richard--Family.;farm life--Mississippi.
Richard Ware family farm; multiple views. Farm of 700 acres located in Harperville, MS. Scott Co. Agricultural agent W. R. Cain assisted with selection of farm family.
Speaking with Representative Molinari of Staten Island, New York; 1- The House has now acted on this issue by accepting the recommendations of the Base Closure Commission. Looking back on it now, what do you think of the process? Do you think it...
